week reflection

This week we started our new assignment which is called “we English”. The aim of this assignment is to show English culture but without using the obvious pictures of the union jack. So I decided to do skate photography and try to use landscape shots with skateboarders in them. The Fujifilm assignment which we did last was a tough one. So many problems kept happening like the weather kept putting off my photoshoots, getting hold of the equipment as I don’t own my own film camera. I also didn’t have many back up ideas for if the worse happened which it did. On this assignment I have loads of ideas simply because I feel more confident using digital and I feel like there is more freedom on what we shoot and how we shot it. We have got to put together a magazine what already exists and put our final images in it. For mine I have chosen three different ones, sidewalk magazine, kingpin and thrasher magazine. I chose these three as they are all skateboarding magazines but I will probably use sidewalk magazine as its an English magazine. We also went through essay writing this week where we spoke about how to describe and annotate our images in an essay which we are writing very soon. In this assignment I have decided to experiment a little. I am go try using filters on flashguns to add colour into it. Because I don’t own filters I am going try and use sweet wrappers as they work pretty good. Im feeling really confident on this assignment and think I will get a good grade. I feel like I have a lot more time on this assignment.

reflection

This week we have been carrying on with our powerpoints. I am feeling much better now about my work as the snow has cleared up meaning I can finally shoot my final shoot on film. This assignment has had ups and downs. The main problem was the wheather as it constantly moved my work to later deadline. I feel that I have used a lot more detail in my work which was my main faults in previous assignments. Generating ideas is something I have focused on for abit. I like to generate my ideas by watching skate videos or when out with friends. I tend to mind map so I don’t forget any of my ideas. I like to look at my favourite photographers work to give me inspiration. My main inspiration comes from Atiba Jefferson and Ed Templeton who are skate photographers but they shoot many other subjects, which I like about them. I think they will deffinently give me inspiration in future assignments. Finding back up locations was a big problem for me as due to the snow I was trying to find indoor locations so I could not worry about my final shoot. That didn’t go so well as I couldn’t find somewhere where we wouldn’t get kicked out from. I have tried all different ideas on different locations and have decided to use 200 ISO film instead of 800 ISO so I can use flash. We looked at what photographers would still use film and I thought studio photographers, landscape photographers and fashion photographers as they wouldn’t need to get as many shots as a sports photographer wand might not need to rush to get them shots sent off to a website or magazine. We also looked at wedding photography which im not sure if I want to do this yet but we were talking about all of the equipment you would need on location like 2x camera bodies, flashguns, sd cards, tripods, camera bags, car. We also went omn to talk about the prices some photographers charge for the day which I was shocked at as some can ask for a few grand.